Quoting: micke1mJust bought it now, the game just crashes instantly for me on Arch.

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
  Serial number of failed request:  3230
  Current serial number in output stream:  3232

Odd, works fine here on Arch. Looks like you're using an AMD GPU going by your GOL PC Info. Try the Steam Linux Runtime container -> right click the game -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Steam Linux Runtime.

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Quoting: Potatoman24This video is not good. Looks like a company promo.

The fact that its also Kickstarter is worrying.

Well, all videos developers do about a game are promotional, that is the point. As for Kickstarter, that's given us tons of great games. Bit of a strange comment.

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Some key things commenters seem to be missing

- It's not aimed at existing Linux users
- It's not the only thing they're doing, we're just explaining one possible thing based on what they said in the quote
- Valve and Wine can't solve EAC or BattlEye, it needs direct support from those vendors to make it happen to any degree of accuracy and to keep it working
- Some of you really lack imagination ;)

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Quoting: aokamiWhat about the syscall emulation Collabora contribution (based in the seccomp mechanism, but ended up being a stand alone mechanism) making it's way in kernel 5.11 ?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B35XhcmBDDI [External Link]

This looks promising and looks like a few back and forth discussions went on and a few patches made it to the kernel already.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v5.11-rc3&qt=author&q=gabriel+krisman [External Link]

This has been talked about across other articles, and noted in the first link in this article where Valve clarified what the work was for - to help DRM work in Proton.

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Quoting: JuliusI think Liam has missed one piece of the puzzle, which is: This usb bootable Linux will allow you to use an existing Steam Windows installation as a Steam library folder. That way a user that has never tried Linux can just plug it in the PC and play around with it, including testing the games he/she has already installed to see if they work.

I left that out intentionally, because running games off an existing NTFS partition has almost always caused problems.

Edit: as for other comments - i'm not saying this will move mountains or be huge or anything. I'm interested in it as an idea though, and merely explaining what it seems Valve are doing.

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Quoting: rcritSimilar to what Hori said, if I already have a Windows system capable of playing games why would I reboot using a USB stick to play them in Linux?

And that is the real question no one as of yet has a true answer for other than the existing arguments for using Linux over Windows that many of us are already aware of, and probably already using Linux for. Part of the point though, is to make trying it as easy as possible. We shall have to wait and see how Valve handles it but the quote in the article is pretty clear IMO on this being something of a plan of theirs.

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Quoting: woox2ksupporting every possible combination of HW people might have will certainly be a nightmare

No different to exactly how things are now for both Linux and Windows. Except, Valve have more control over the software which was the point of SteamOS. This is an evolved form of it. Mixed with the container runtime to ensure compatibility, the burden is far lower than when they tried with Steam Machines.

Quoting: woox2kSecond, they are bit late to the party. Gone are the days where most pc users knew and could easily boot into other media because the option was right there on POST. These days, thanks to fastboot and UEFI, most people don't even know how to get into UEFI settings, let alone change boot device.

That is a legitimate hurdle they would need to think on, with some clear instructions for what people can do. Perhaps even a simple tool to go along with it that does the burning, and gets Windows to allowing rebooting into it. There are ways around this problem that smarter people will no doubt have already thought of.

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Quoting: MayeulCI just tried a couple tricks for PA, to no avail, like pretending [External Link] to be an Intel GPU. This seems to be our best bet [External Link] for now.

They've been teasing a new bigger update coming, and upgrading their UI system was on their roadmap too. They kinda have to upgrade their UI system eventually anyway, since they're on quite an old one last I checked.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI feel like I keep seeing GoL headlines somewhat like this. How many of these things are there now?

The only other recent was Gravity Ace.

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Correction: the special launch price is €1,599 which they weren't listing correctly before.

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